The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Living quarters of the 2nd Mergui Prisoner of War Camp, one of the best prisoner of war camp in the Far East. The construction is of wood pole frames, with bamboo matting coverings and an attap (palm frond) roof. The two storey building had a large passageway down the centre, electric lights connected and was partly furnished with stools and tables.
An attap thatched palm hut at the Aerodrome Prisoner of War Camp. The kitchens can be seen on the right detached from the main building. This was one of a number of Japanese prisoner of war camps in t
Depicts a painting of the "55 Kilo Camp Burma Thailand Railway, at the end of the lean to is the operating "theatre. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of
Two men in Konyu River Camp. Chalker became a Japanese Prisoner of War when Singapore fell in 1942. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of Singapore. In
Depicts a row of huts inside Camp Karees with a view down a roadway within the camp, with thatched huts on small stilts on the left hand side and a number of simple tables, chairs and buckets in the r